CANS 200- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANS 200
• Professor: Marie Anne

Document Summary

Announcements: canadian studies association of undergraduate students. Indian act 1876 government took enormous control over indigenous peoples: readings for essay posted on mycourses. Ecological regions: artificial boundaries were created, natural regions define geographical boundaries, cultural, language boundaries, enormous variation, arctic particularly egalitarian societies, west coast much richer resources, complicated material infrastructures, potlaches. Potlach = way of distributing wealth and distributing social respect. Not so different from the way that rich people are expected to engage in philanthropy. Franz boas calls the gift relationship an interest bearing investment : boreal forest very rich resources, lots of meat (pemmican very important), fur. Accounts emphasize men rather than women: oral history accounts emphasize women"s role over men"s different accounts. Desceliers map: 1500s map of the gulf of st. lawrence. Looks more like a metro map doesn"t show topography but shows you what you need to know to get from one place to another: very schematic.